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Poem by Robert Herrick


On a Perfumed Lady


You say you're sweet: how should we know
Whether that you be sweet or no?
-From powders and perfumes keep free;
Then we shall smell how sweet you be! 



Robert Herrick


Robert Herrick's other poems:
  1. To Sapho
  2. His Teares to Thamasis
  3. On Himself (Lost to the world; lost to myself)
  4. Upon Julia's Ribbon
  5. The Rock of Rubies, and the Quarry of Pearls


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